What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.