We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
I have a very close relationship with my parents.
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
My heart is like a singing bird.
We only part to meet again.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Science is what scientists do.
Philosophy was once considered science.
My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.
