A hunger for the unknown, and an aspiration towards beauty, were inseparable from civilization.
All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
The cult of ugliness is a regression. It destroys our appetite, our love for our world.
The enemy of a love is never outside...it's what we lack in ourselves.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
You cannot save people, you can only love them.