Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.