All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound
Profession: Poet
Nationality: American

Some suggestions for you :
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.