It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.