An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
Art is science in the flesh.
Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.