When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Umberto Eco Quotes