I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
Living is a horizontal fall.
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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