Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
Too much looking backward. . . is bad for progress.
You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht. "
The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, this latter being their chief concern.
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.