I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.

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.

When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

After every war someone has to tidy up.