“Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”

“The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.”

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.”

“I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I dance.”

“He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.”

“And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent,devouring green azures”

“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”