Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.