"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."

"You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it."

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."

"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."

"Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music."