Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.

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

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.