Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.