We know well only what we are deprived of.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.