To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.