I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

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

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.