Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo