I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

The artist must create himself or be born again.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.