in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
The joy of youth is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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Hasten slowly. Run faster than beauty.
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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Art is science made clear.
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