“Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”
“There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.”
“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”
“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner. and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.”
“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”