[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.