"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beyond our small transitory life." ~~ Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. Stephen Mitchell

"Shrill notes begin, the grim violin. Then from the silence a violence of sirens orchestrate the score, to which one more corpse is left quiet. How we've become the hollows of drums, the rest between notes and the hollers than ever reach throats..." ~ "Salty Eyes," The Matches

"Poetry is realer than history. History tells you what happened on an occasion. Poetry tells you what happens again and again." ~ John Moore

Tea: the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, and the fifth is ecstasy.