What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.

All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

I've grown extremely tired of the face of the world.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.