At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.