What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.