“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”

“So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.”

“I don't want to be a star, merely dying.”

“The first star tonight insanely high, virgin, calm.I have one hour of peace before the documented planets burn me down.”

“Like a bird on a wire,like a drunk in a midnight choir,I have tried in my way to be free!!”

“In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!”

“I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts”