Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.