Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.