With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.