The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.