“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”

“He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.”

“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”

“it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.”

“You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”

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

“Because of your purity, youthful Utu has made everything abundant for you; may a sweet life be your lot, son of Ninsumun.”

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

“Poetry can be written only because it has been written.”

“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.”