“Only poetry isn't shit.”
“This isn't business. This is poetry.”
“Pop," I said, "isn't this shit vaulable?""Not to me, son.”
“Sunset was only thirty minutes gone when some pissant vampire waylaid Deacon on his way to Theriault's. One of those younger shits who wrote poetry to Mother Darkness and thought becoming a vampire would make him sparkle.”
“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.”
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”