"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

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

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.