Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

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

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.