Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.