How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
Everything touches everything.
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.