Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns.

There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.