"However much we investigate, we can never reach anything but images and names."

"The poet is someone who perceives that language, his language, the language he inherits…is in danger of becoming a dead language again, and he therefore has the responsibility, a very grave responsibility, of waking it up, of resuscitating it…Each poem is a resurrection, but one that engages us to a vulnerable body, one that may be forgotten again."

"I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time."

"In passion, memory inclines toward the intemporal. We gather up all the delights of the past in a given image; the diversely red sunsets I watch every evening will in memory be a single sunset."

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