In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

The Constitution doesn't mention rain.

Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.