"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live." — Jean Cocteau

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.