To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.