Never pursue literature as a trade.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for …

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…