Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has..

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell..

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing..

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography..