If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.

My curiosity sister of larks.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Sometimes it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week, and I put them aside and read them and t…

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, a la chandelle, Assise aupres du feu, devidant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous emerveillant: 'Ronsard me c…