"Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath."

"Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas."

"Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself."

"Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him."

"The general holds back his cavalry to a pace that suits his infantry, for if its infantry is left behind, the cavalry…"

"Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate."

"Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is …"

"Oh, what company good poets are!"

"A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them."

"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century."