The present moment is a powerful goddess.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.