His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

Everything touches everything.