It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who for many thousands of years, in all countries and parts of the world, has, now and again, stayed for a time among the hard-working honest people in real life, and sometimes has thus been fortunate enough to create another sort of reality for them, which in some way or another, has satisfied them. I am a storyteller.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.