The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.