Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!