I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead..

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work..

The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done..

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty..

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order..

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of re….

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work..

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently..

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame..

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

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms.

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

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it..

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive..

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothin….

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performa….

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off….

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting..

A little too much is just enough for me..

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly..

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing..