What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.