Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Art is fire plus algebra.
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is...
I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.
Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.
We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.
Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poeti...
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds.
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
From the twilight of day till the twilight of evening, a leopard, in the last years of the thirteenth century, would see some wooden planks, some vertical iron bars, men and women who changed, a wall...
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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