A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.