Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"