A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

I love you, ’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.

Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

There is so much power at your fingertips! Use it!

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!

I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.