All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

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.

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