Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Why is the place where I want to be so often so far from where I am?

I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

Wipe your glasses with what you know.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.