I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.