Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

God made only water, but man made wine.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.