If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

Kung fu: You've got to spend your whole life at it before you're kung fu.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.