All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
Every birth is a getting to know.
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.