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.

Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

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

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

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

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