Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.