Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.

Power is neither male nor female.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.