I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!

Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.