What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

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

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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. Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself. And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved. Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors. For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths out of sight, in the deep living heart.