The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.