“We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.”

“The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.”

“We were given one country and we've set up in another.”

“There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.”

“There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?”

“There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.”

“I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.”