Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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.