From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.