The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
Literature is the memory of humanity.
The poet is the only one for whom the world is not silent; he is the only one who can hear the music of the spheres.