The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.

If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.