A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

Memory. My poison, my food.