Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

Merely to exist is not enough.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!