no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

We soon believe the things we would believe.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

[My favorite word is] and. It is so hopeful.

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.

Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

A lady is known by the product she endorses.

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

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