Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening”
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own
All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!”
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.