"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"

"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation"

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums"