Occupation: Poet Birth: July 5, 1889 Death: October 11, 1963
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter..
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood..
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living..
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens..
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities..
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept..
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end..
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, s….
The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today..
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memor….
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….
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up..
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for..
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing..
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants o….
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance..
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off..
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing..
A film is a petrified fountain of thought..