Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

I realise that stress is only fear. I now release all fears

Maintenance is terribly important.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.