One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.