An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.