Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.