I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.