And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.