Occupation: Poet Birth: October 30, 1871 Death: July 20, 1945
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that o….
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly..
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is ….
The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live..
His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against….
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of havi….
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect..
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that ten….
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time..
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events..
To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth..
To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth..
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator..
In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master b….
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which w….
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds..
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key..
Politeness is organized indifference..
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us..
Cognition reigns but does not rule..
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas..