Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

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.

A love that dies has never lived.