I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

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

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

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.