Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Talent is long patience.

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

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.