When the image is new, the world is new.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

We must listen to poets.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.

Kill what you can't savewhat you can't eat throw outwhat you can't throw out buryWhat you can't bury give awaywhat you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

Don't expect everyone to admire this world is made up of hate and fire.

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario, ' it's not as bad as it seems.

I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.

You can't miss what you never had.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.