Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Poetry is the scholar's art.