“Unwritten words grow out of silence.”

“There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.”

“Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.”

“There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.”

“The purpose of life is life.”

“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.”

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

“They forget that love is not a science but an inherent state of mind; they forget that sex is practiced by animals without textbooks and that it is not such a secret that requires a complete science, courses and special training. And so impotent, with artificial stars on the ceilings of their rooms, they become the main teachers on the way to the stars.”

“An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value.”

“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?”

“Many are so used to laurels and presume that they are real winners.”

“Time often removes the laurel wreaths and places them on the heads of the real winners. But then usually both are dead.”

“Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winners don’t care about adorned victories.”

“Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?”

“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”

“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”

“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”

“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.”

“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.”

“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.”

“Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.”

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

“Names do not know how to sing, although they sometimes sound glorious.”

“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.”

“A poem is its own name and cover.”

“There are those who speak and those who dream.”

“I recreate myself; that is my only power.”

“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”

“While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.”

“He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.”

“We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.”

“I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.”

“My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.”

“Creating means living.”

“Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.”

“And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.”

“What you gain here, you lose on the other side.”

“Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.”

“In greatness, life and death merge.”

“Life eats life to live.”

“Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.”

“Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.”

“With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.”

“In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.”

“Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.”

“Death swallows death.”

“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”

“They are both spectacular, Life and death.”

“You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.”