We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

I love the majesty of human suffering.

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.