“... unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.”

“A threat to kill is unreal--actual blood and shredded flesh has its own reality.”

“The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.”

“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost the gift of being able to drink of its inner strength. People can be killed for poetry here—a sign of unparalleled respect—because they are still capable of living by it.”

“Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.”

“The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”