The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.