We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.