And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.