Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Language is the only homeland.

Be young forever, seasons of the earth.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

The true enemy of man is generalization.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.