You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

When it comes, you'll be dreaming that you don't need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it's part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos
but in other respects it is light.

There is nothing more animal-like
than a clear conscience
on the third planet of the Sun.

I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.

They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.