"What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again."

The poet is the one who names the unnameable.

The more you subtract, the more you reveal.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system.

It's not always necessary to be better than everyone else, but to be better than you used to be.