Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.