Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.