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

“How can we live without the unknown before us?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”