“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
“...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.”
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”