Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

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

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.