“The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.”

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

To philosophize means to make vivid.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

Humanity is a comic role.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

The artist shall never run out of paint. Because the artist, my love, never runs out of pain.

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Writing is a delicious agony.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

No man can give me any word but Wait.