The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.