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.

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.

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 come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

If we can benchmark nature on how it operates, then we never have to worry about how, and when God takes care of us.

Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.

Well, come back and have tea with us, " saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph.

If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.