Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.