Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.