Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Celebrities)
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
My freedom ends where your freedom starts.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Young people believe to live forever, and therefore they favour every thought and every desire. The old ones are already shrewed that somewhere there is an end, and that all that is possessed and it makes for one's self, at the end it will fall in a grave and it will not have had some value. For this they need a various eternity and to believe that they do not only work for the worms. That's why there are wife and sons, transactions, job, homeland: for giving to a scope to the hard work and the daily sacrifices.