It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.