There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.