What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.