One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.