All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Language is the only homeland.

Be young forever, seasons of the earth.

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

The true enemy of man is generalization.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.