It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?"

And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.

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.

Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been