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

Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.