No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

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

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.

Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.

I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.