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

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

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

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.