And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words..

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music..

That's where the money is, on the road..

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language..

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring….

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in….

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written..

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss..

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly..

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet..

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art..

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them..