Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.