Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

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

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.