Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.