Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.