That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
My poems mean what people take them to mean.
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.