“There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.”

“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.”

“The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very deceitful; they create the illusion that a large number hides a great word.”

“Many writers were better before they became famous.”

“It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough.”

“A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less.”

“A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?”

“Words do not choose their company or discriminate among the people who use them.”

“We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?”

“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.”

“Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.”

“A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed. In the changed role this number enriches the silence.”

“In its proper role, a number counts the missing words.”

“A right word counts the silence; a bad word is counted by the page.”

“A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence.”

“Unwritten words grow out of silence.”

“There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.”

“Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.”

“There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.”

“The purpose of life is life.”

“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.”

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

“They forget that love is not a science but an inherent state of mind; they forget that sex is practiced by animals without textbooks and that it is not such a secret that requires a complete science, courses and special training. And so impotent, with artificial stars on the ceilings of their rooms, they become the main teachers on the way to the stars.”

“An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value.”

“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?”

“Many are so used to laurels and presume that they are real winners.”

“Time often removes the laurel wreaths and places them on the heads of the real winners. But then usually both are dead.”

“Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winners don’t care about adorned victories.”

“Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?”

“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”

“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”

“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”

“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.”

“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.”

“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.”

“Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.”

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

“Names do not know how to sing, although they sometimes sound glorious.”

“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.”

“A poem is its own name and cover.”

“There are those who speak and those who dream.”

“I recreate myself; that is my only power.”

“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”

“While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.”

“He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.”

“We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.”

“I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.”

“My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.”

“Creating means living.”