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

Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.