We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.