Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
The rich’s paradise was created by the poor’s hell.
The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory.
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud – and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule – that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.