Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.