For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

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

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.