I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.