Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Tenors get women by the score.

All human history moves towards one great goal

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.