“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.

You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.

You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.