Occupation: Poet Birth: January 6, 1883 Death: April 10, 1931
Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and….
Work is love made visible..
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars..
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation..
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self..
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary..
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all….
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death..
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one..
Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun..
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children..
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed..
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him..
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only i….
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teach….
Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees..
All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand..
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the o….
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful d….
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn..