For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

Solitude is the profoundest fact

Loving means getting rid of names.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.