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

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

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.

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.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.