Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Politeness is organized indifference.
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.