Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism : they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it…

They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots.

People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

'O frate,' disse, 'chesti qu'io ti cerno col ditto,' e addito un spirto innanzi, 'fu miglior fabbro del parlar materno. Versi d'amore e prose di romanzi soverc…

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.