It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

Renewal of mind leads to revival of spirit and revitality of soul.

Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to fit in and struggle to survive.

I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.