Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.