Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present.
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled,. . . We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.
We like to be deceived.
A politician. . . one that would circumvent God.
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.