I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

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?

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. 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.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow.