Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, con…

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, g…

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in th…