The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.