Whatever is not stone is light

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

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

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

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

Solitude is the profoundest fact