I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.