He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Writing is busy idleness.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.