Language is a part of our organism 

and no less complicated than it.

A lost but happy dream 

may shed its light 

upon our waking hours, 

and the whole day 

may be infected 

with the gloom 

of a dreary or sorrowful one; 

yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Fashion is the science of appearance, 

and it inspires one with the desire to seem 

rather than to be.

I am no bird; 

and no net ensnares me; 

I am a free human being 

with an independent will.

A high heart ought to bear calamities 

and not flee them, 

since in bearing them 

appears the grandeur of the mind 

and in fleeing them 

the cowardice of the heart.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, 

that is the task of the artist now.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... 

They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Nature is a temple 

in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. 

Man approaches it through forests of symbols, 

which observe him with familiar glances.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, 

the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us 

is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

A multitude of causes 

unknown to former times 

are now acting with a combined force 

to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, 

and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion 

to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

The hallway of every man's life 

is paced with pictures; 

pictures gay and pictures gloomy, 

all useful, 

for if we be wise, 

we can learn from them 

a richer and braver way to live.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility 

cannot keep me from making mistakes. 

Only when I fall 

do I get up again.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

I am never afraid of what I know.