There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.
When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.