A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.