A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.