A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

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

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

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.

I am a collection of the family's body parts.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

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