What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life...

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life...

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages...

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages...

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power,...

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power,...

Take it and return it: the kiss of love

Take it and return it: the kiss of love

What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the...

What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the...

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls...

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls...

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove...

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove...

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you...

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you...

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are...

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are...

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often...

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often...

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not...

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not...