Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.