To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.