Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.

Solitude is the profoundest fact

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.