Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.