“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”

“… when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed”

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

“That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”

“I think you need to have bad times to learn about life. If you keep on being successful, you do not learn. If you do mistakes, you learn from them and become a better person. My past has helped me become a better cricketer and human being.”

“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

“Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.”

“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”