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

Slogan-making is not 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.

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

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.

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.