The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Life itself is a quotation.

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.