Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.