The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda.

Is it possible to say 'It was a beautiful morning at the end of November' without feeling like Snoopy?

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.