Reality favors symmetry.

I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.