“There is no love that is not an echo.”

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”

“As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.”

“The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth”

“Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”

“People know what they want because they know what other people want.”

“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”