I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.

Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna

When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.