When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.