Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.