We haven't the time to take out time.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

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.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.