Poet

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Ketika Kristus berkata, 'Maafkan musuhmu,' itu bukan demi musuh, tetapi demi dirinya sendiri bahwa dia mengatakan demikian, dan karena cinta lebih indah dari pada kebencian.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Everything popular is wrong.

Seorang sentimentalis adalah orang yang ingin memiliki kemewahan emosi tanpa membayarnya.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Seorang pria sejati adalah orang yang tidak pernah kasar secara tidak sengaja.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Drama itu sukses besar, tetapi penontonnya adalah bencana.

Siapa, dicintai, miskin?

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Ketika seseorang jatuh cinta, seseorang selalu memulai dengan menipu diri sendiri, dan selalu berakhir dengan menipu orang lain. Itulah yang disebut dunia roman.

Jika seseorang mengatakan kebenaran, dia yakin-cepat atau lambat-akan mendapatkannya.