A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Knowing your strengths is intelligence

I have accepted the challenge of life, to be all that I can possibly be.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.

Maybe I was in love, but I was still me, after all.

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.