To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!