Cinema is a world of imagination.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Islam is a dangerous religion.
Religion is an irrational construct.
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. I shall be a litterateur, at least, all my life; nor would I abandon the hopes which still lead me o...
...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk imagine. They see and think and do things peculiar to themselves, and one may turn up buried treasure in them at any moment. ("Absolute Evil")
What is art? Nature concentrated.
To think is to be sick...
A family is a mystery.
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.