You must change your life.

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

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.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.