I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.