There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

The temerity to believe in nothing.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.