We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

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

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.