What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.