When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.