“It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.”

“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”

“Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem itself.”

“Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.”

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

“Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.”

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

“A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.”

“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.”