We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.