Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Living is a horizontal fall.
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation