“The poet is a pure spring from which all thirsty souls may drink.”

“True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul,and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower.”

“Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.”

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”

“Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?”

“The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm, nor the voice that echoes it.”

“You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.”