"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."

True friends are not those who have endless topics to talk about, but those who can stay together without feeling awkward even if they don't speak.

The first erroneous assumption is that quality means goodness, or luxury, or shininess, or weight. Quality means conformance to requirements.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.