"A poet is at the same time a force for solidarity and for solitude."

"I like you to be quiet. It is as if you were absent and you heard me from afar, and my voice did not touch you."

"I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops."

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'"

"I am a poet, and I write what I feel."