All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.