Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

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 English language is nobody's special property.

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

I read; I travel; I become

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.