Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.