If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Since that time, both production and acreage have diminished.