Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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.

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

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

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan