The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.