"She said he was a man who cheated. He said she didn't play the game. She said an expletive deleted. He said the undel…"

"Plato, despair! We prove by norms How numbers bear Empiric forms, How random wrong Will average right If time be long…"

"This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained"

"Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition."

"With an a natural affinity for the epigram genre, I am, so to speak, a short breathed man and have an almost unthough…"

"What is needed is a noticeable unnoticeable style,... a directness of speech that seems to one judging easily imitabl…"

"An old dissembler who lived out his lie Lies here as if he did not fear to die."

"Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain And time grows fertile with extended pain"

"What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure — it is much too bro…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."