Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Exchange is creation.