“ You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together. ”

“ I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”

“ At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ”

“ Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. ”

“ Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

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

“ Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. ”