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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.