Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

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

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

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

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.