With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to….

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift..

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing be….

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life..

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt..

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange..

Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors o….

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit..

Whatever is not stone is light.

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears..

Death is the mother of forms..

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers..

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others..

Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one s….

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings..

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever ….

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism..

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the….

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today..

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate..

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two..