One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.