It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

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

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.