One must not mistake majority for truth.
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.