An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.