All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.