Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.