What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.
Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.