She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.