Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.