Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.

最糟糕的人是那些让别人因为对某事感到兴奋而感到糟糕、愚蠢或愚蠢的人。

Poetry is the medium through which we confront our own solitude.