Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

Translating is writing.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?