Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.

To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!