It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

Be young forever, seasons of the earth.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.