How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

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

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Every birth is a getting to know.

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

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.