1889 – 1963 • French • Director
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
