“Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings”

“No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done”

“There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to saving humanity. History always repeats itself.”

“"There's nothing new under the sun": that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. And the poem you created is also new under the sun, since no one wrote it down before you. And all your readers are also new under the sun, since those who lived before you couldn't read your poem. And that cypress under which you're sitting hasn't been growing since the dawn of time. It came into being by way of another cypress similar to yours, but not exactly the same.”

“Since there is nothing new under the sun. The aim of motivation is to confirm what you already know. Simply, clearing your doubts.”

“I don’t know how to defend myself: surprised innocence
Cannot imagine being under suspicion.”

“This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.”

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

“You are an endless project… changing, evolving, surprising.”

“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”