One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.