Occupation: Poet Birth: October 30, 1871 Death: July 20, 1945
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistak….
Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap..
What is simple is false and what is not is useless..
At times I think and at times I am..
Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hi….
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair..
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content..
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenn….
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking..
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery..
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it..
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is domina….
to live means to lack something at every moment.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows..
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whethe….
My poems mean what people take them to mean..
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones..
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through..
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned..
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up..
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to..