Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.