Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.