Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Holidays - Have no pity.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to give him your heart now, hoping he wouldn't break it later.

That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Why are you such an asshat?" "An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh.

I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

I don't like things set in stone.

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.