“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”

“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves.”

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. ”

“The poet begins where the man ends.The man's lot is to live his human life,the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.”

“Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.”

“I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”