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

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

“There is only the one like me, the companion man or woman, who can wake me from my torpor, set off the poetry, hurl me against the limits of the old desert for me to triumph over it. No other. Neither sky nor privileged earth, now things which set you to trembling. Torch, I only waltz with that one.”

“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.”

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

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