Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
One must not mistake majority for truth.
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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.