You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

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

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.