Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

It is only when you are pursued that you become swift

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when...

You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand

Work is love made visible.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness. Freedom of loneliness and safety from being understood. For those who understand us enslave something in us.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an instrument with but a single string before one who commands all instruments

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you,...