Every invalid is a prisoner.

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.