“To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.”
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity
From the poems written in English
“From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.”
“The Light of the Book,” p. 69
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Thought and Flight”
“When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.”
"Sign and Speed," p. 19
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”
“Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.”
“New Word,” p. 69
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
“Is It Possible to Write a Poem?,” p. 111
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
“Dreams are our only geography—our native land.”
Don Quixote http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-quixote-6/
From the poems written in English
“From nothing comes everything.”
"While the Sign Sleeps," p. 17
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”
“A Thought about Ourselves,” p. 122
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Hopelessness”
“Virus of the Soul,” p. 93
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
“A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.”
Big Dreams http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/big-dreams-2/
From the poems written in English
“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”
Dancing of Sounds http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21378/Dancing_of_Sounds
From the poems written in English
“Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.”
"The Eye of a Sign," p. 43
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “A Word and a Sign”
“How does one say something new and not retell?”
“New Word,” p. 69
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.”
"Mathematics," p. 29
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”
"I and I," p. 30
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”
”River of Death,” p. 78
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”
"The Life of the Shape," p. 23
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”