To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.