My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
Childhood knows what it wants – to leave childhood behind.
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
The cinema is death at work.
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
One must not mistake majority for truth.
What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.