“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”

“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.”

“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.”

“I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of music, and should not introduce meanings or intentions into the diction before clearly grasping the system of sounds that every poem must offer on pain of nonexistence.”

“To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.”

“to live means to lack something at every moment”

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”