“For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”

“Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.”

“Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”

“And none will hear the postman’s knockWithout a quickening of the heart.For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”

“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”