105 quotes
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Diary entries (1914)
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990)
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Diary entries (1914)
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
French Writers of the Past (2000)
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
Diary entries (1914)
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
Diary entries (1914)
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Diary entries (1914)
Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
French Writers of the Past (2000)
All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
Diary entries (1914)
I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
Diary entries (1914)
This abdiction of life demanded of the artist is to be achieved only relatively. Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
Diary entries (1914)
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness .
Diary entries (1914)
Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."
Diary entries (1914)
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
Diary entries (1914)
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Diary entries (1914)
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
Diary entries (1914)
I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.
Diary entries (1914)
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Under a Glass Bell (1944)
The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.
Diary entries (1914)
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Diary entries (1914)