Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.