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.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.