Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.