Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

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.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

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