Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.