Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.