Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

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

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.