Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

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

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.