Water is the soul of the Earth.

So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.