“Life itself is a quotation.”

“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.”

“Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.”

“Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.”

“His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.”

“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”

“Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.”