I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.