"In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well." — Paul Valery

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.