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

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.