“He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.”

“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.”

“In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.”

“But history is that rare woman who doesn't like to look at herself in the mirror. History, when she finds herself in front of one, wipes and wipes its surface at though in this way she might change her face to something better”

“Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.”

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”