It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.