The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.