I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.