I Think That The Reader

I Have No Way Of Knowing Whether The Events That I Am About To Narrate Are Effects Or Causes.

I Don't Think There's Any Essential Difference, At Least For Me, Between Writing Poetry And Writing Prose.

Time, Which Despoils Castles, Enriches Verses.

Once I Am Dead, There Will Be No Lack Of Pious Hands To Throw Me Over The Railing; My Grave Will Be The Fathomless Air; My Body Will Sink Endlessly And Decay And Dissolve In The Wind Generated By The Fall, Which Is Infinite.

Literature Is Not Exhaustible, For The Sufficient And Simple Reason That A Single Book Is Not. A Book Is Not An Isolated Entity: It Is A Narration, An Axis Of Innumerable Narrations. One Literature Differs From Another, Either Before Or After It, Not So Much Because Of The Text As For The Manner In Which It Is Read.