To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
Soren KierkegaardBusyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
Soren KierkegaardWhat is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.
Soren Kierkegaard