The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.