Occupation: Poet Birth: October 30, 1871 Death: July 20, 1945
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?.
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning..
Sometimes I think and other times I am..
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms..
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit..
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything..
The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary t….
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish..
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men li….
We civilizations now know ourselves mortal..
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so..
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious..
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist..
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpe….
My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more..
Love is being stupid together..
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false..
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever..
Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details..
Power without abuse loses its charm..
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature..