In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it.

Where I create, there I am true.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

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

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