Without democracy freedom is a chimera

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death