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“So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.”
Source : Veronica Franco (2007). “Poems and Selected Letters”, p.69, University of Chicago Press
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“The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.”
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“And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.”
Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.23, McClelland & Stewart
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“I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.”
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“Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.”
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“I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end.”
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“I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City,”
Source : "Ridge: Alert to remain orange through the week". Interview with Bill Hemmer, cnn.com. December 30, 2003. 
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“Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.”
