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.

I like to read because it kills me.

In the end I would rather wonder than know

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

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

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

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.