Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.