No society has been able to abolish human sadness no political system can deliver us from the pain of living from our fear of death our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition not vice versa.
All one's inventions are true you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and...
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love as an ascetic loves the...
The better a work is the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.