Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.