Occupation: Poet Birth: October 30, 1871 Death: July 20, 1945
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business..
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights..
We must always apologize for talking painting..
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is..
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, fo….
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing..
All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable..
Sometimes I think, sometimes I am ..
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves,….
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means..
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be sup….
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully..
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather..
History is the science of things which are not repeated..
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no lon….
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect..
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants..
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best..
Poems are never finished - just abandoned.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an or….