“This isn't business. This is poetry.”
“Only poetry isn't shit.”
“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.”
“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.”
“And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”