Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.