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

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

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.