A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.