We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

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.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

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.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.