I always say three things make a writer: inspiration obviously perspiration doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
One must not trifle with love.
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
