A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

My only two weapons: time and silence.

I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.