Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.