in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

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

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

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

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

I like to read because it kills me.