I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.
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