To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.