42 quotes found
“Human communication and literature are all made of words; thus, its hard to overestimate their unbelievable power.”
“Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.”
“We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.”
“Joy, it is, which Ive never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self delight in something external, not satisfaction of some i...”
“You may be ableto fly to heaven with my love.But for real, my love is onlya cheap wine.Seriously,Only Gods love is the precious wine.And She evengives it to everyone.For free!”
“Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.”
“There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.”
“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I said. That you end up being friends with writers. And friendship, treasure though...”
“It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the arti...”
“so heavy with sorrow , so full of pain”
“I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existential terrain I need to consider it in relation to anthropology, ethnology, and mythology.”
“Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.”
“this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on”
“Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.”
“Joy, it is, which I've never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self-delight in something external, not satisfaction of some i...”
“Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!”
“Thoughts are meant to be words and words are meant to be written and what is written becomes a figment of the literature”
“Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.”
“it is not the first language that is all-important, but which language captures the adolescent's imagination when he or she first discovers literature.”
“Language is no barrier for a lover of words.”
