...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.