A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.