Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is...
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is...
There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children...
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It’s curative....
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
