A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

There’s no preparation for poetry.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.