A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

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.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Only the Saviour saves souls.

The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

The Gospel of transformation is from men and women of earth to men and women of eternities.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Interdependency follows independence.

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.