There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.