J'aime les chats parce que j'aime ma maison. Et qu'ils en deviennent peu à peu l'âme visible. - Jean Cocteau

Si le feu brûlait ma maison, qu’emporterais-je? J’aimerais emporter le feu...

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.