Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.