To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.