You can only predict things after they have happened.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.