Each thing implies the universe.

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

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

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.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

Love is for real men.

Never make a promise which you think is hard to keep. Never make a promise though!!

More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with.

Presidents Trump's USA is not a good country to be a sickly person in.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

I would never take any of my cards off the table.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.