A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Poetry is bound to concern itself chiefly with permanent aspects of life.

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, a la chandelle, Assise aupres du feu, devidant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous emerveillant: 'Ronsard me c…