Women are strangers in the country of man.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.