“Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.”
“If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son of God can undergo judgement of shit, then human existence loses its dimensions and becomes unbearable light.”
“[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.”
“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”
“Nothing mattered at that moment except for the fact that the love of my life was in emotional and physical pain.”
“With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.”