I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

Love the questions, themselves.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

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