Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

L'oeuvre pure implique la disparition elocutoire du poete, qui cede l'initiative aux mots.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.