There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.