If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

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

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.