"The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

诗歌只是生命的证据。如果你的生命燃烧得好，诗歌只是灰烬。

The material has its own intelligence.

Fame is not the goal. The goal is the art.