All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.