To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.