To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.
Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.