Occupation: Poet Birth: January 6, 1883 Death: April 10, 1931
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its char….
And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles..
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens..
Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure ha….
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life..
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not d….
He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it..
Let your best be for your friend..
I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute..
Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music..
Passionate love is a quenchless thirst..
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice..
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind..
Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive..
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness..
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers..
You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it….
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation..
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies..
Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whi….