Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

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

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.