Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

What if you get called to a fire?” 
His eyes raked over her as he prepared to devour her. “Let it burn.

was i leaving a life that, if snuffed out in a plane crash, would leave a sweet aroma representative of what matters most?

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

Pups think rules are suggestions.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.