“Eternity is not much longer than life.”

“The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.'He does not always come away unscathed fromhis page, but like the poor, he knows how to make use of an olive's eternity.”

“No man, unless he be dead in living, can feel at anchor in this life.”

“In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply.There is no malign shadow over capsized boats.”

“Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.”

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”

“A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.”