My writing is careless, but all through it is something that is good, that is mine alone, that no other writer could ever achieve.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

Boredom was the plague of my childhood. While I was at the orphanage, the boredom came from being in a place I did not wish to be. I was bored. I was bored the…

The order I found was the order of disorder.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Ainsi presque tout est imitation. L'idee des Lettres persanes est prise de celle de l'Espion turc. Le Boiardo a imite le Pulci, l'Arioste a imite le Boiardo. L…

I wish you were my sister. I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself. The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to…