Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.