A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

Not all of me shall die.

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'