It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.