Love is being stupid together..

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms..

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning..

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpe….

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conce….

There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men li….

History is the science of what never happens twice..

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will..

Sometimes I think and other times I am..

Everything changes but the avant-garde..

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear..

The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary t….

Science is a collection of successful recipes..

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences..

Sometime I think; and sometime I am..

Power without abuse loses its charm..

Nothing beautiful can be summarized..

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature..

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal..

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything..