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

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

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.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

There may come a day when internet comments sections are deemed, for the good of humanity and the sanity of civilization in general, to be a form of biohazard or metaphysical catastrophe.

I get up extremely early in the morning.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe.

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

We don’t have to talk about Zsadist. That’s okay. He’s the most interesting part of me.

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.