Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say.

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.

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

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

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

We know well only what we are deprived of.

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