When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact...
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his st...
American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a ps...
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
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.
American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.
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 hims...
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
In general, dividing literature into prose and poetry began with the appearance of prose, for only in prose could such a division be expressed. By its nature, by its essence, art is hierarchical, auto...
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