Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.