I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.

Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.