From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.