The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.