I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't lik…

We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine.

A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corr…