Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.