I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.
There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.
I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise – a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames – but still a paradise.
And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let’s even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.
Words without experience are meaningless.
There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.
Look at this tangle of thorns.
The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.
You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.
Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .
I don’t think in any language. I think in images.
Beauty plus pity – that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don’t stop to think, don’t interrupt the scream, exhale, release life’s rapture.
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.