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

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

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.