The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.