Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.