But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.