Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.