But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.