I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Life is fired at us point blank.

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.

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.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

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.