For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

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

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

Translating is writing.