A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. |
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. |
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. |
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. |
History is the science of things which are not repeated. |
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. |
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. |
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. |
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. |
Politeness is organized indifference. |
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. |
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. |
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. |
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. |
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. |
Love is being stupid together. |
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. |
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. |
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. |
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. |