“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”

“At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.”

“Poetry is the vision in a man's soul which he translates as best he can with all the means at his disposal.”

“A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.”

“A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.”

“Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)”

“What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.”

“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”

“No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.”

“Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.”