If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.