We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.