“Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.”

“We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.”

“Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.”

“Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.”

“The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.”

“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”

“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.”

“No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.”