Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

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