Date of birth: 1871-10-30
Date of death: 1945-07-20
Quotes number: 36
Nationality: French
Profession: Poet
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
At times I think and at times I am.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
