“That which is original creates a new origin. That which is original, by definition, must stray off the previously worn paths. It must wander; it must err.”

“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”

“Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel.”

“Nothing is original. It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes:That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas.”

“You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.”

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”