There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

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

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.