The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Wait for the last possible moment to make a decision.

In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.