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

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Art is science in the flesh.

Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.