“a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.”

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”

“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”

“while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.”

“Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.”

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”

“...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)...”