Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

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

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.