History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

Nothing exists except through language.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.