I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

The best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.

The cold is lonely person's way of feeling alone and death

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!