The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.