We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.