And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

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.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.