What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

... I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.

When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can't stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Please reach out for help, your voice will save you.

Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price since it's at least as effective in curing head and heart of what ails us.

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.