Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.