Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement.