“What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine.What is poetry! And you are asking me?Poetry...is you.”
“Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.”
“What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe”
“You bitch,' he said. 'You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.”
“Poetry is a sound, asking the shadow to dance”
“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”