“ It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. ”

“ Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. ”

“ Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. ”

“ I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. ”

“ After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. ”

“ Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. ”

“ A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. ”

“ For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. ”

“ The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. ”

“ The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ”