After every war someone has to tidy up.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.

I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.