Irving Howe

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.