But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

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

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.