I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Thought tends to collect in pools.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.