Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

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

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

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.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

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

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.