I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.