Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute

Genius is an African who dreams up snow

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion