I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

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.

If I dream under a moonlit night, should it vanish with the brightness of the morning sun?

A winner is a person, who is programmed for victory in advance

We can't achieve zero waste without reuse.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

...‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

I got married and had a baby. Created a human.

In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a pizza.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.