Occupation: Poet Birth: January 6, 1883 Death: April 10, 1931
Only love and death will change all things..
When you are sorrowful, look again..
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes..
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a ….
I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop..
I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say..
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all..
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to….
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever.….
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself..
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun..
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you sa….
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yo….
She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she….
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhy….
For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a tra….
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights..
For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences….
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end..
And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself..
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the w….