Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

Do you know who are Awesome?Those who Believe in themselves.

Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated.

You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.

Who needs them when we have each other?

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.