He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

It's so unfair because the centennial committee wanted to present this very special event available to everybody free of charge,

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.