Occupation: Poet Birth: January 6, 1883 Death: April 10, 1931
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle..
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair..
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper..
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choi….
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge..
You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.
When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong..
A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul..
All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and ther….
Much of your pain is self-chosen..
For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow..
In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men..
Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better..
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth..
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons..
When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us..
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man..
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to….
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone..
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flig….