One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women