When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.