What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

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.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.