Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.