The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.
The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements.