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

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

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

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

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.