The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

nothing is slower than the true birth of a man

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.