126 quotes found
“There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of o...”
“History will be erased in the universal purgatory.”
“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.”
“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.”
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.”
“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”
“A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it mo...”
“Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is prede...”
“They forget that love is not a science but an inherent state of mind; they forget that sex is practiced by animals without textbooks and that it is not such a secret that requires a complete scienc...”
“Many writers were better before they became famous.”
“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”
“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”
“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?”
“An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value.”
“Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.”
“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.”
“A poem is its own name and cover.”
“Good is not always good.”
“The purpose of life is life.”
“There are those who speak and those who dream.”
