“Poetry is life distilled.”
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
“Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.”
“I stare at him in awe. "That was an amazing amount of distillation.""Yeah, well, I'm an amazing distiller.”
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
“Civilization begins with distillation”