To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

But what is great can only begin great.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.