Arm / Poor Besitzen / Own Bücher / Books Ersatz / Substitute Genug / Enough Gut / Good Leben / Life Weg / Way
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.
This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
