"Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution , a perception."

"Very few writers of verse can read their work to keep their listeners aware of the beauty of sense, that sense of beauty from the powerful , delicate ways in which sense is made by poetry."

"The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fiction -fable, 'image', metaphor-all the material if the nonliteral."

"We and the trees and the way Back from the fields of play Lasted as long as we could No more walks in the wood"

"Winter wields only the spades, Summer brandishes Hot, black clubs, Spring shower hearts about and Autumn shows A fall of diamonds in our climate of extremes"

"The blueprints of verse can be used to build things made of literal, or nonpoetic material, which is why most verse is not poetry."

"'Poetic form' is a very deep matter that covers much more than phonological or typological pattern."

"One crosses the brink of literalness into poetry by desiring , noticing, fixing on something and wondering what to make of it."

"Poetic form, as we know it, is an abstraction from, or residue of musical form.... The ghost of oral poetry never vanishes...all poetry was originally oral."

"The study of rhetoric distinguishes between tropes, or figures of meaning such as metaphor and metonymy, and schemes, or surface patterns of words. Poetry is a matter of trope; and verse, of scheme or design."

"Hollander's poems span the full range of human emotions and must be counted among the most sophisticated productions of the human mind."

"The warfare between poetry and philosophy certainly started with Plato, who was both poet and philosopher."

"Major poetry not only 'employs' metaphor, irony and other tropes (and is of them) but always and explicitly or implicitly considers the nature of the trope itself."

"You can teach the writing of verse..like prose..an instrument..and the recognition of true poetry. The rest, writers must teach themselves."

"Great poems are all fables about life."

"Metre is to rhythm as eye is to ear."

"For the poet, the biblical sense of 'know' is as much part of nature as the heat of fire, and in the cognative sense as much a given phenomonen as the brightness itself."

"Ultimately poetic thought is interpretive."

"English Prosody has tended to be a subject for cranks."

"The large (in English) unphilosophical, 'poetic' or 'religious' questions are elicited from their precise and technical microcosms."

"Since he (Hollander) is a poet himself..he conveyed a passion for that knowledge as a source of current inspiration."

"Not being a philosopher I've had to work through my feelings and puzzlements in poems."

"Contrastive stress is very important in English, as poems are full of invisible italicised contrasts of this kind."

"A teacher (of poetry) has to know and feel what poetry is , and be able - and this is crucial- to read it aloud effectively."

"Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem itself."

"The more you understand a poem and its complexities and depth, the more you will be able to do when reading it aloud."

"I revise very little. I always write in long hand and revise when I type. I test them out when I read them aloud."

"Central also to reading verse aloud is the handling of enjambment, ..the interplay of line-end and sentence-flow."

"Poetry may be written on paper, but it’s an oral art.A good poem satisfies the ear .It creates a story or picture that grabs you."

"Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spoken poetry sound different to ordinary discourse."

"Reading a poem aloud by someone who understands it, can be a crucial experience, but better yet is reading it aloud oneself."

"Inspiration comes within a framework. A poem that gets out of hand is not a poem."

"I usually seem to finish a poem when I write it down. I may have been carrying the notion around in my head."

"I find free verse very, very difficult to write."

"Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It is an act of understanding that can never be observed, nor in any way prescribed or verified."

"If you want to argue with me, either you respect me, or hold your tears after I am done with you."

"Meanwhile, from our federal government, there was a plan of the National Council of Public Security to resolve the worst and most urgent problem, which is the number of homicides in Brazil, for which we are already in the first place. The first place belonged to Russia, but we are now, with our 50,000 homicides a year, first. Russia has whatever, 42. Russia still was a little bit ahead, but we've got 50. Not saying it's 50, it is 49,999. So we are record-breakers. I already told you, our students take the last places on international tests, and we practice more homicides. Then it is not wrong to conclude: The Brazilian is the dumbest and most murderous of people in the universe!"

"As a young man, Bill Clinton was one of thousands of leftist students who benefited from KGB funds, earning one of those trips to the USSR which were the preferred means for the recruitment of Soviet agents in the universities of the West. In the 60s, that would be deterrent enough for any application for town mayor of the interior. In the 90s, after three decades of Gramscian cultural revolution, the dangerous links did not prevent Clinton from being elected US president with the support of the American Communist Party. Thanks to a well-calculated "politically correct" speech, the new ruler became an idol of the left, which moved heaven and earth to keep him in office despite a range of charges, including sexual frivolities, financial imbroglios and a multitude of small Watergates, including something perfectly serious and terrifying: the suspicion of favoring Chinese nuclear espionage. The well-thinking press resisted any investigation of the matter."

"The largest funder of the campaign for the liberation of drugs is George Soros, who also subsidizes pro-terrorist and disarmament organizations (a wonderful combination) and nurtures the modest ambition of becoming the informal president of the world. He has already bought land in Bolivia, where, once legal barriers are removed, you have everything to be the biggest supplier of raw materials to the FARC."

"If you are a conservative, you think that a citizen has no right to hire another to kill him (much less to kill a third party), because life is a sacred gift that cannot be negotiated. But for the liberal, there is nothing more sacred than the right to buy and sell - even life itself: if you think your life sucks and want to hire a professional to put an end to it, neither the State nor the Church have the right to give the slightest opinion."