You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...
Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.
Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.