The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.