The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.