"I am not a poet; I am a man who writes."

"I want to do with you what the moon does with the night."

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

"Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread."

"My feet are in the sand and my head is in the stars."