Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.