If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.