Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

Just because someone doesn't respond...doesn't mean they are not Listening.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

I'm pretty romantic.

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.