Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

Only in the present do things happen.

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?