The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.