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

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.