Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.