When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
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.