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

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.

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

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.