How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

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

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.