You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

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 look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

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.