The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

I have layer upon layer of thoughts in my head and the bottom one has nothing to grip on to.

I never speak in silence.

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

You cannot change what you will not confront.