I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.