For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

When things go wrong, your best recovery effort is required. But don't just provide the missing piece (that's the recovery), also provide uniquely personal assistance (that's the memorable effort).

The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines.