1. “No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
2. “My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.”
3. “The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.”
4. “For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.”
5. “How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.”
6. “Wings are freedom only whe they are wide open in flight. In one’s back they are a heavy weight.”
7. “However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
8. “One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you ant on your on desk.”
9. “And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.”
10. “Somewhere in the night a human being is drowning.”
11. “Perhaps we may meet each other in a dream.”
12. “Women are paths into the dark: I’m like the rest.”
13. “For the way of the comets is the poet’s way.”
14. “The eclipses of poets are not foretold in the calender.”
15. “I am only a shell where the ocean is still sounding.”
