All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.