It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath

So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.

Wake me up Wake me up, you said But I was sleeping, too I was dreaming But now I"m waking up Still waking up I can see the sun

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis in the United States will make its appearance in the same way.

People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.