Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

To be here is immense.