If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.

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

Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird.

I like to read because it kills me.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.