“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”

“We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.”

“A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.”

“And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express”

“To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of the idea of what it means to be truly happy or content. ”

“In a pluralistic culture . . . every individual must create a private mythological system. I must discover within myself the Garden of Eden from which I am exiled and the New Jeruselem toward which I am journeying. And must bear the burden of being my own redeemer, my own Christ.”