Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up to the full measure of your aesthetic emotion.

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Until now, a siren had always been a moving object: it approached from a distance, hurtled by, moved away. Now a siren was attached to Bird like a disease he carried in his body: this siren would never recede.