The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.