Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.