“The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found ...” — Max Jacob Quote

“The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.”

“What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.”

“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.”

“There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.”

“To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.”

“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”