It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.

What will survive of us is love.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.