One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.