The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

My only politics have been friendship.