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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Man is what he reads.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few...

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave...

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

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