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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and h...more

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At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

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I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen lov...more

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This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That lif...more

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A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deep...more

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

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I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence ...more

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so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythin...more

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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was...more

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... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through

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first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again

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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her ...more

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Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formula to let you die

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And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury ...more

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I walk through the old yellow sunlightto get to my kitchen tablethe poem about melying there with the booksin which I am listedamong the dead and futu...more