Oh! How Near Are Genius

When Science, Art, Literature, And Philosophy Are Simply The Manifestation Of Personality They Are On A Level Where Glorious And Dazzling Achievements Are Possible, Which Can Make A Man's Name Live For Thousands Of Years.

Pithy Sentences Are Like Sharp Nails Which Force Truth Upon Our Memory.

To Say That Man Is A Compound Of Strength And Weakness, Light And Darkness, Smallness And Greatness, Is Not To Indict Him, It Is To Define Him.

At An Early Age I Sucked Up The Milk Of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato And Euripides, Diluted With That Of Moses And The Prophets.

When Shall We See Poets Born? After A Time Of Disasters And Great Misfortunes, When Harrowed Nations Begin To Breathe Again. And Then, Shaken By The Terror Of Such Spectacles, Imaginations Will Paint Things Entirely Strange To Those Who Have Not Witnessed Them.