What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.