If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.