A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
The temerity to believe in nothing.
Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.