The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of being driven by destiny.

Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.