When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.