The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

The artist must know how far to go too far.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.