Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.