"When you are at Rome, do as you see."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

“I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.”
“To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.”
“Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going to listen to how you described things. I'm going to look at them much more intensely and carefully than most people do, and certainly more intensely than our culture wants us to." The mission of the poem, of course, is to try to find the way to do that in the smallest amount of space possible.”
“The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!”
“Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.”
“My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right ...”
“Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.”
“The short winterâ€™s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.”

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