What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.