“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”

“I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.”

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“My duty moves along with my song:I am I am not: that is my destiny.I exist not if I do not attend to the painof those who suffer: they are my pains.For I cannot be without existing for all,for all who are silent and oppressed,I come from the people and I sing for them:my poetry is song and punnishment.”

“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.”