Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.

Our element is unending immaturity.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.