Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.