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.

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.

Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.

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

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.