The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The only way to kill death is through photography.