"One expresses well only the love he..." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“Women's glances express what they dare not speak.”

“Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.”

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.”

“And I say to you, I have decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. For I have seen toomuch hate... every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities, and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.”

“The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.”

“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”

“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”

“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.”

“I know why the caged bird sings.”