For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience