Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.