A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.