The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

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.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.