“One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.”

“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.”

“It's beautiful to transcend generations and to just be inside an artistic work, together, enjoying what only a great artistic work can provide.”

“I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.”

“I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad.”

“I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.”

“I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.”