One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.