There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

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

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.