What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love