It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

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

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.