Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

No bad man can be a good poet.