Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.