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.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

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

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.