Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.