1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the...
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give...
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.