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

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

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

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.