There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.