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

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how 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.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

I am smart because I know I nothing.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

I'm going to live until I die, and everything in between is just another excuse to eat peanut butter.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

There are flaws in romance but love is perfect.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.