We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!