A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
A short poem need not be small.