After every war someone has to tidy up. |
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. |
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. |
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. |
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. |
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink! |
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. |
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke. |
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. |
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. |
I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible. |
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. |
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. |
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. |
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. |