Sede, portanto, surdos quando alguém vos fala sem Jesus Cristo, da linhagem de Davi, nascido de Maria, que verdadeiramente nasceu, que comeu e bebeu, que foi verdadeiramente perseguido sob Pôncio Pilatos, que foi verdadeiramente crucificado...

Very intimate but very separate at the same time’. That’s my credo for friendship.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that...

A skeptical man with a credo, ‘Seeing is believing’. One day he found something so alien and said, ‘I can’t believe what I just saw’. Then the other man with different credo, ‘Blessed are they...

If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when I was asked to say something on this topic, I came up with...

credo ut intelligam. (i believe so i can understand).