One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.