Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.