Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

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