Occupation: Playwright Birth: October 31, 1876 Death: February 2, 1972
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But lat….
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one..
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners..
I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time..
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem..
... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops..
Might I be the one I am looking for?.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?.
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings..
I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life..
It is time for dead languages to keep quiet..
Our shadows are taller than ourselves..
The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future..
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual..
I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it..
Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution..
Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight..
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether….
The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating..
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen..
Silence too can be indiscreet..