"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry"
"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books"
"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day"
"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life"
"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat"
"We must act out passion before we can feel it"
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact"
"We do not judge the people we love"
"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world"
