Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

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