The poet is a man who can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

"My work is a constant struggle against the power of language."

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Every quarry has a story written in layers of stone and generations of workers.