The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Necessity is often the mother of balls

Islam is not a set of rules. It’s a way of seeing life and the world.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.