"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"

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

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"

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

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food"

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

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

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas"

"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"

"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"