I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

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

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.

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.

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