“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
“The joy that isn’t shared dies young.”
“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.”
“God owns heaven but He craves the earth.”
“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
“In a dream you are never eighty.”
“Even without wars, life is dangerous.”
“Death’s in the good-bye.”
“Need is not quite belief.”
“Live or die, but don’t poison everything.”
“The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that’s saying a lot.”
“I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.”
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