[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.