Occupation: Author Birth: May 7, 1861 Death: August 7, 1941
Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song..
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other..
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and ….
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life..
Inspiration follows aspiration..
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us..
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection..
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer..
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh..
The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song..
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth..
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord..
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law..
When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty..
The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East..
God finds himself by creating..
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious..
There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world..
For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man..
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wo….