To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.