We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

First sentences are doors to worlds.