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Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.

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We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong.

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. ...more

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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

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The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

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Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to expressWith a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,The bleeding of my heart.

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Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!What a refuge it is to be completely unreli...more

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Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - ...more

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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

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With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-belie...more

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To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. ...more

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Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

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I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. A...more