The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.