A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea...

Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

It's the guided thought that conquers; not the guided missile.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.