He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.