One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.