Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

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

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.