Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

On this earth there is that which deserves life.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.