"Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel."

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."

"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."

"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen."

"I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity."

"Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution."

"I was born to travel and write verse."

"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave."

"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."

"I am a man for whom the outside world exists."

"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."

"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."

"Books follow morals, and not morals books."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

"What I write is not for little girls."