There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.