| 1 | A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a brilliant and ascends it while arena a violin. (E. de Goncloister, French writer) | |
| 2 | A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (E. de Goncourt, French writer) | |
| 3 | Facing those coming things I become stranger..."Goncourt's feelings is a kind of confused response for the sudden drastic changes of the city." | |
| 4 | New York, for a young man who had frequented the Goncourts and Flaubert, and who thought the life of ideas the only one worth living! | |
| 5 | A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (E. de Goncourt, French writer) |