As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.