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

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.

What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.