Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

My only politics have been friendship.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.