I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats
A political leader worthy of assassination
A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.
I have stopped being a misanthrope.
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.