I am burning myself up and will always do so.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

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!

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.