“I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the go...”

“Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”

“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of soli...”

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

“I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it....”

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the...”

“Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.”

“I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.”

“Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose...”

“I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and rom...”