As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.