This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Man must be invented each day

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.