"However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it"

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes"

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"

"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem"

"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry"

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind"

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem"

"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem"