Quotes about knowledge and wisdom
The ultimate question is: Can literature be of any good whatsoever, except the good for literature itself?
Art is perfectly useless, as life is.
What I am going to express here is something that is true but cannot be proven.
A sense of history and a sense of the permanence of language are the ballast any poet needs.
The world cannot be explained in words. It can only be recorded.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question.
Happiness is not a destination, it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself.
It is difficult to improve on silence.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
It's hard to hate, and it never pays to haggle.
The poetic work is the interior fruit of the soul.
The dreamer weaves the wings of time.
To sing the sorrow of things is to beautify them.
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.
To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width.
Genius is an African who dreams in a Russian manner.
Life is every where full of gods.
Man is what he believes.