Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.