 Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. |
| A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. |
| Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. |
| 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. |
| Read much, but not many books. |
| One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. |
| One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. |
| Exuberance is better than taste. |
| The future is the worst thing about the present. |
| Of all lies, art is the least untrue. |
| What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. |
| One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form. |
| The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. |
| 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. |
| Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. |
| Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. |
| Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. |
| A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Topics: Death |
| To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. |
| Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. |
