“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.”

“She walks in beauty, like the night”

“I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

“The cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure.”