“They will explain themselves — as all poems should do without any comment.”

“The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.”

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”

“It is quite bizarre that scholars trying to prove a point discredit their own case by using a proven forgery without any comment.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.”

“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.”

“Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.”

“The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout.
Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves — those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.”

“A poem should not mean
But be.”

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”