The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I am what is around me.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.