This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.