Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

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

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation