And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.