My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.