Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

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.

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.