The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Language is the only homeland.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence, one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

The purpose of poetry is to remind ushow difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

every dream I have about kissing you ends with blood on my hands.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching . . . by and large, chores are a thing of the past.

The doc showed no hint he had trouble taking lives.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.

You can divide my life into two.