The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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 day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.