I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.