Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

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.

Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.