In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.

I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.