"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created."

"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die."

"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."

"I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago."

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it."