The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.