Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

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

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.