I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.