True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

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

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

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

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!