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

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.