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

One must not mistake majority for truth.

My only politics have been friendship.

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!

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

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.