The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Actors are athletes of the heart.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.