It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

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

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

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

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.