Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.