The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

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

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once th…

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after …