It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.