Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

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.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

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.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms