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

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

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

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

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