Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?