I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

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

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.