A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

We must always apologize for talking painting.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.