“The star wasn't poetry until the madwoman discovered it.”

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”

“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

“You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.”

“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”

“Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry. I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

“As his prick goes into her, he discovers the world. He knows the source of numbers, the path of the stars.”

“The pleasure of their (the Imagist poetry is not the satisfaction of discovering little by little, but of seizing at a single blow, in the fullest vitality, the image, a fusion of reality in words.”

“Cass gained a lot of strength from her public. Once she was a star, she wasn't afraid of anybody, and certainly not me.”