"A visionary sees the unseen and knows every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love."

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

"One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry."

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

"It is a subtle truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless."

"Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose."