In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

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

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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