Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.

I cared her, I adored her, I loved her a lot, But in the End it didn't matter at all..!!

Life should be touched, not strangled.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

People around the world just want self-respect. They want to take care of themselves, they want to pay for their own bills, they want to take care of their families.

Industrial food makers don't want you thinking about where your food comes from and what's in it.